Mark Birkinshaw is a British physicist, who currently holds the William P. Coldrick chair in Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Bristol. He was the first to detect the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect. References External links http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/people/birkinshaw_m/index.html Living people British physicists Year of birth missing (living people)